spaeman

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Scots spaeman.

Noun edit

spaeman (plural spaemen)

(Scotland) prophet; diviner

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “spaeman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams edit

man apes

Scots edit

Etymology edit

spae (“to prophesy, foretell, predict, tell fortunes”) +‎ man

Noun edit

spaeman (plural spaemen)

fortuneteller, diviner, prophet

Related terms edit

spae-folk (“sorcerers, wizards”)
spaer (“fortuneteller, soothsayer”)
spaewife (“female fortuneteller”)